Tejas Gawande
- Exceptional people grow up in exceptional milieus
This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at.
These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exception... See morefrom Childhoods of exceptional people
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The adults had high expectations of the children; they assumed they had the capacity to understand complex topics, and therefore invited them into serious conversations and meaningful work, believing them capable of growing competent rapidly.
It's conventional wisdom that focusing too much on work / ambition / wealth isn't the optimal way to live a happy life. Turns out there's an actual chemical explanation for why: @maxjoseph https://t.co/FHS2EeSzhQ✨ Where great ideas come from
Six neurotransmitters make up life. Need to focus on all of them to ensure overall happiness and flow
- Keep your Sails Up
During tough times, it is crucial to maintain a positive attitude and take actions that keep you motivated and uplifted.
Keeping your spirits high by engaging in small, positive activities like eating right, cleaning up, socializing, being kind, and generous can help navigate through challenging situations and prevent oneself from ... See moreKeep your sails up. Be ready for when the winds come
- Skinner’s three key insights — immediate rewards work better than delayed, unpredictable rewards work better than fixed, and conditioned rewards work better than primary — were found to also apply to humans, and in the 20th Century would be used by businesses to shape consumer behavior. From Frequent Flyer loyalty points to mystery toys in McDonald... See more
from Why Everything Is Becoming a Game by Gurwinder
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Gamification: Evolution of a concept from friend to foe
From Sam Altman' blog. It is you and your bros against the world. Cultivate optimistic delusion. https://t.co/rJgk6DjC1OCultivate optimistic delusion
A reminder of the power of simplicity (h/t @tferriss) https://t.co/gnaGueBSoj✨ Where great ideas come from
Great ideas take time
- Previous eras of creativity have mostly looked a bit like sculpting. A sculptor takes a block of material and carves it, slowly but surely, into shape. Nothing happens without her hand. Even when an assistant is involved, the sculptor pores over the project, because their human input is important at every point of the process. So too with writing, ... See more
from Capability Blindness and the Future of Creativity
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The age of AI: We used to be sculptors. We're all about to be gardeners.
- Writing increases your rate of revelation. This is true irrespective of the subject because writing is a process of reflection, assertion, and iteration.
Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets ... See morefrom Writer-Builders by Anu
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Writing as an act of discovering and connecting new ideas
- A lot of care went into curating the environment around the children—fascinating guests were invited, libraries were built, machines were brought home and disassembled—but the children were left with a lot of time to freely explore the interests that arose within these milieus.
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See morefrom Childhoods of exceptional people
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Exception people in their childhood had time to roam about and relied heavily on self-directed learning